Shaker for salt or other material



March 9 I926.

E. E. SLICK SHAKER FOR- SALT 'OR OTHER MATERIAL Filed April 25, 1925 tion and arrangement or location that they 1 ented Mar. 9, 1926.

EDWIN a. sum, or PITTSBURGH,PENNSYLVANIA:

sHAKEnroa slim on crime MATERIAL.

Application area April 25, P225. serial No. 25,778.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN E.- Snort, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pittsburgh, in the county ofAllegheny and the State of Pennsylvania, have made a new and useful Invention in Shakers for Salt or Other Material,- of which the follow.- ing is a specification,

This invention relatesto shakers for salt and other material and an object thereof is to produce a shaker having an improved form of discharge orifice.

Salt (sodium chloride) because it is bygroscopic has a tendency to clog the orifices or holes in the covers or caps of shakers as these holes are ordinarily formed.

By the selection of certain materials this tendency to clog has beenreduced, but so far as I am aware, the trouble has not been entirely overcome. p i

A further object of this invention is'to produce a shaker for salt orother material having discharge orifices of such construcmay be readily and easily cleaned or cleared if they do become clogged.

Instead of making use of a cap as is ordinarily done to close theopen end of the shaker, I use a plug or stopper and thread this in to the open end which is formed with internal threads for this purpose. Instead of screw threads, a bayonet joint connection may be used between the plug and the walls of'the opening.

The plug is provided with a knobor wing forming a handle and at one or more places around the body of the plug its periphery is provided with channels that cut through or replace the threads at that point so as to form discharge orifices that are. bounded partly by the grooved or serrated sides of the plug and partly by the inner surface of the open end of the shaker.

With such a construction, if the channels should clog, the plug can be removed and the salt wiped oii from the surfaces of the grooves or serrations. There are no holes as such, since they are formed partly in the plug and partly in the threaded inner surface of the plug opening.

There are, of course, numerous materials from which the body as well as the plug or stopper can be formed, but I prefer to form the same from glass.

in the drawings accompanying and forming panel this application, Figars fl is a shown in Figs. 1,2 and vertical sectional view through the body and plug of a salt, shaker embodying. this invention. Fig. 2 is a similar the shaker turned around 90. Fig. 8 is a sectional. view taken on line. 3-3 of Fig. 1

view taken with,

looking in the direction .ofthearrowsr Fig.

4 is a side view in elevation of the stopper 3. Fig. 5 is a view of a modified form of, stopper or plugand the adjoining part of the shaker. This View is taken in vertical section. Fig. 6 is a similar view with the parts turned 90 and Fig.

'Z is a bottom view of the modified form of hi p T llfi body 8 ofthe shaker may be of any design desired andmay be. formed of any suitable material. It is, as Ihave said, preferably formed from glass. either by pressing or by pressing and blowing andits open end 9 is provided with internal screw threads 10. In theforms shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3-and 4;, an internal shoulder 11; isprovided. This shoulder serves as astopto, limit the inward movementofthe plug or; stopperbo dy 12.

A knob J3servesas a handle for turning the plug into and out of the bodylportion of the shaker. The body 12 ofthe, plug is pro vided with external screw threads 14:, and at diametrically opposite points the threads are replaced by serrations or grooves These grooves or serrations extend longitudinally of the plugbody, cutting thefthreads. In other 'words, they extend atfs'ubstantially rigl'it angles to the threads. Inside" of or below the serrations, the body portion of the plug is cut away at 1.6 as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4 to provide sloping surfaces for guiding the salt to the channels or discharge orifices formed between the surfaces of the serrations or grooves and the innerthreaded surface of the open end of the shaker body. In Figs. 5, 6 and 7, the body of the plug is formed much, shallower than in the other form. The shoulder 11 of the shaker body is omitted and the plug is limited in its in ward movement by the wing handle 17 which projects laterally beyond the body of the plug and contacts with the top of the are tapered and this is preferable since this with and the serrations are of itself limits the inward movement of the 111 I l r istead of having the plug grooved or serrated grooves or serrations may be formed in, the Walls of' the plug opening.

The constructions shown the drawin s,

however, are preferable to this construction.

For certain uses, it may be desirable to omit the serrations from the plug or from the Walls of the plug opening and to for-1n the plug in tivo parts ivith one or both of the surfaces of the abutting parts serrated or grooved.

The body of the shaker may be made from crystal; glass or from glass of any color desired; This applies e uall to the stopper. I find it preferable to make the sto15 5i'- from glass of a di erent color from that or the body of th' shaker. here shalie rs are used for difierent" materials, for salt and for ep ergfor instances-y making the stoppers 6 different colorgt'he sha'lers for the different materials can be readily dis? tingui'sl'fed one fronithe other. i p Having thus described my invention, What claim is I A shaker for salt or other material, comprisinga hollow body having a base with threaded ppeninqin the end op'po site said' base a plug threaded into said openin and provided with longitudinal c hanifiels' oi, greoves which" xtend inwardly beyciircl the piagflui-reaas and t rmreratn'ei short for discha'rg ng material dircty nor" the hollotit bodv t'vl-ien the shaker isjnverte'd.

2. A shake-r com'p base, an interior chamber for housing mare rial and an interiorly threaded in the end opposite said base and a plug threaded vvithin said opening and provided with channels or grooves in its periphery which form relatively short passages for disc liar gifig material diret rom sai-d chamber When the shaker is inverted.

As new article' of manufacture, a shaker for salt or other material comprising- Hollow glass'bod having a base and 'a threaded opening in the end opposite said base," a plug threaded into said opening and provided with longitudinally extending serrations or grooves in its periphery ivhe'refby discharge passages fortunater ial are toriiid and eans for limiting the morement-of th' plug into the body opennig. p

4.7 A Shakerfor salt or other material com prisifig a body having a han1be1 formed therein for housing material and having a bziFse for supporting the body in an upright position said body also having a threaded opening and projecting above th e top ofthe body to form a handle, s'aid 5mg being provided \vith enamels or grooves which e;- ten'd rawaarymywaum plugthreads and form relativelv short assages for discharging martini directlv iii-015i the narrow body When the sh'alier is inverted.- A shaker for ait or other material, comprisin a body having a; supporting base, at

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opening in its top; a plu threaded in'tosaid 

